Extinct Ink Campaign Using Tattoos As A Conversation Starter Around World Animal Day

Sustainability Extinct Ink Campaign Using Tattoos As A Conversation Starter Around World Animal Day Jeff Kart Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Following New! Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories. Got it! Oct 4, 2022, 02:00pm EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The groups behind Extinct Ink say each individual meets around 10,000 people in life.

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[+] opportunities to educate about extinct species. Sea Shepherd / Fred & Farid NY The folks at marine conservation nonprofit Sea Shepherd are using human skin to remind us of extinct sea animals. No, not by making handbags.

But by encouraging tattoos. Just don’t tell your kids? Sea Shepherd and a creative boutique called Fred & Farid New York says it’s a call to action based on the simple idea that tattoos are a conversation starter. That they are.

There’s a video featuring people who’ve already inked up with tattoos of extinct animals, inviting people to do the same. How far would you go for marine conservation? This is beyond a T-shirt or bracelet . They say some people wear their emotions on their sleeve.

Or their skin in this case. Sea Shepherd is known for being provocative, using patrol vessels to interfere with whale hunts and illegal fishing. They call it direct action .

Like adding ink directly to the skin. Extinct Ink aims to create a forever lasting impact. And get people to use #extinctink when posting to social media.

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A tattoo of the Mexican dace Sea Shepherd / Fred & Farid NY Some examples of “forgotten and extinct species” highlighted in the push include the Mexican dace, a ray-finned fish native to Mexico, declared extinct in 1983. There’s also the Baiji, or Yangtze River dolphin, a white-finned species in Eastern China that disappeared in 2002. The Javan lapwing, a long-legged bird native to Java, Indonesia, has been gone since 1940.

A year earlier, the silver trout, native to the Northeastern United States, was driven to extinction. These animals ceased to exist due to pressures like hunting, pollution and habitat loss, Sea Shepherd says. MORE FROM FORBES The U.

S. Is Declaring 23 Plants And Animals Extinct By Priya Shukla Unfortunately, there’s plenty more extinct ink ideas to choose from should you seek to join the campaign. In 2020, 31 species were moved to the extinct category on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, including three Central American frog species.

The organization, International Union for Conservation of Nature, says today that more than 41,000 species are threatened with extinction. And that’s based on just 28% of all assessed species. The mission of World Animal Day , marked every Oct.

4, is “to raise the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards around the globe. ” It occurs on the feast day of St. Francis, the patron saint of animals.

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